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links for 2008-05-08
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Alec’s take on Identity
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tim bray having a go at feed based VRM
May
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great critique by JP of what appears to be deeply ignorant commentator on open source in HBR. Another phrase I use in this context - make something work, money will follow
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“We are not just realizing a revolution occurring with organization IT resources, but the revolution is happening across the board for users suppliers programmers resellers organizations and vendors.”
May
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links for 2008-05-04
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tim bray hits the nail on the head. the internet is about disintermediation, it allows you to follow the source, not just the commentator. so why don’t we? perhaps we need to disintermediate our minds. and aggregation is not the same as filtering.
May
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Disintermediation of minds?
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Commenting on the false rumour that Twitter is going off Rails, Tim Bray hits the nail on the head. Again.
If you want care about Twitter, follow @biz or @ev. If you care about Rails, follow DHH here or here or here. If you care about Sun, read what the people at Sun say. Same for IBM or Microsoft.
The internet is about disintermediation, and about zero distance:
The Net is a giant zero. It puts everybody zero distance from everybody and everything else.
One of the things that underpins what I do is getting across to individuals and companies that they don’t need the media. They can put their side of the story out there and do their best so that people follow them and hopefully trust them. The internet levels the playing field, power law notwithstanding.
One of few things that unites bloggers is linking to others and to their sources. So for any opinion, rumour, news or guess, there should be linkage supporting that view (only rants are excused from this requirement). Even most media commentators - after years of bashing from the blogosphere - are now linking to sources of their stories.
So given that we can follow the source(s), not just be at the mercy of the journalist or the commentator, why don’t we?
If you care about the Big New Thing that’s going to change your life, wait till it comes and touches your life. Then you’ll know what it’s really about, not what some overworked underslept Bay-Area meme-promoter thinks.
Perhaps now that the internet has disintermediated media, we need to disintermediate our minds. We rely on aggregators, top 100 rankings, meme generators and promoters. Sayz Tim:
The other problem with the aggregators is that there are a lot of smart, hungry, imaginative people working really hard to game them and get noticed. Sometimes it works.
Yes, we need to manage the flow of information that is growing by the day. We need some way of filtering the bits that we are interested in from the noise. But aggregation is not the same as filtering. Our way of handling information still dates back to the era where authority and approved sources made it easier, if not better in terms of quality of information and complexity. I have mainly media in mind here. We used a range of sources, not unlike a radar scanning a designated area, to see if anything new came up. The effort was considerable but limited by the scope and number of sources. Once that got out of hand, we started to lose the battle to contain the information - we either keep scanning faster or throw hands in the air saying that there is just too much information.
The internet is a network, so why not use its nature for information handling. Instead of a delineating a radar field, we can build a spiderweb of sources that will ’shake’ the web and alerts me when there is something of interest. Our feedreaders could be constructed that way - the nodes in the web, sources that filter for us and the points in between insider sources that we might be occasionally interested when something happens in their sphere.
There has been a proliferation of tools that help me aggregate but there are still very few tools that help me filter. Part of the reason may be that the human mind is the best filter of all but, surely, there is room for tools that can help me to it easier and better.
Note: I covered this more visually here (about 6 minutes into the video).
May
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links for 2008-05-03
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it’s a wild west web out there and security it not going to get better. Why? Complexity and humans. Obviously, really.
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best innovation comes from solving simple problems, scratching one’s itch
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“The leaders of our healthcare industry don’t yet get technology and the power of embracing an engaged consumer with a platform, a service, and their own neighborhood doctor that talks the way they talk.”
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excellent cartoon, very true. but the answer is not to switch off the computer, just assert your own autonomy. if socnets are an excuse to leave the web, they have won. And not in a good way.
May
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links for 2008-05-02
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“If it gets to the RFP stage, you lost.” heh, I knew there was a reason why I felt uncomfortable when some folks start talking about RFPs!
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non-polished statement from CBS: “We think readers are extraordinarily bored with this infantile and nasty pilling on… and will continue to focus not on baseless rumor and conjecture, but on the quality and depth of the broadcast – which is second t
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“Everyone knows that most Facebook apps are time-wasters, at best. But here’s statistical proof from FlowingData: A breakdown of the service’s 23,160 applications, via Facebook’s self-selected categories.”
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“I’m not big on ‘What’s the new techno-gadget of the week?’ ” he said. In this case, though, he said he “came to realize how important a tool like Twitter is.” A case of one-to-many by individual, not media saves the day.
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Peer-to-Patent opens the patent examination process to public participation for the first time.
Become part of this historic pilot program. Help the USPTO find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications. Become a comm -
sound advice. nothing new really, sad that it’s needed now, in 2008
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the new metrics rely on tracking, harvesting and mining MY data. all about how this is uneven and not good quality, not a bit about whether this is the way to go and how sustainable it is. Outcome-based metrics all the rage - just measure the eyeballs dif
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converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments. need to test. seems only for US
May
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links for 2008-05-01
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trading with oppressive regimes doesn’t ‘open up’ markets, it merely keeps the thugs in power for longer.
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“We believe the future of the web is about personalization.” not sure I agree with that, depends on what they mean by it. To me it implies tweaking something others’ do rather than creating my own. Web is a mixture of the two, feeding off each other.
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heh “Microsoft envisions HailStorm as a way for consumers and business customers to access their data–calendars, phone books, address lists–from any location and on any device.What HailStorm is really about is helping people put together their personal
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“The BBC’s technology programme Click has exposed a security flaw in the social networking site Facebook which could compromise privacy.” Not really surprising
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links for 2008-04-30
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the best way to run a start- up is as if it were a charity. actually makes sense. VRM Hub and VRM NEA have no business model as such, trying to make something work first. Make something work, money will follow. The trick is spotting where.
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“The RIAA is fighting very hard to make sure that [Andersen’s case] never reaches a jury,”
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I want ubuntu to be successful and user-friendly as I intend to turn my windoze laptop into a ubantu run machine. I had a similar experience with the previous version of ubuntu and really glad someone wrote all this down. Please ubuntu people take note! I
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brilliant and overdue analysis of terms bandied about the Web 2.0 crowd. Must read.
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this is a nice guide but why does everything have to be corporate? Blogging or twittering? individuals communicate, corporates ‘message’ at us, so how can they do either?
Apr
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links for 2008-04-29
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recommended to me to read, in return for my recommendation of Postrel’s Substance of Style.
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interesting stuff, brings in another aspect of the net - tagging and taxonomy - to politics.
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Why separation? “One of the key features of federated identity systems is a separation of the identity provider and the relying party. How does a relying party know which identity providers to trust. How do users know which relying parties they can trust.
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even insurance can be changed or impacted by VRM and the ability of people to take charge of their data
Apr
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lots of thoughts bound by same underpinning one - how does individual avoid and benefit from the ‘free’ exchanges of data and attention going on online. Seems most don’t know or care. I’d say, give them something useful that doesn’t lock people in and the
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this is basically ‘because effect’ model. you don’t make money with something (that can be or is free) but because of it. See blogging bring money not via ads but reputation and its application elsewhere. “But free is not quite as simple — or as stupid
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for those who haven’t followed the debate surrounding OpenID and just want to know what it’s about. OpenID servers for hardcore geeks possible but most need providers
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London VRM meetings
